Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Anniversaries on 26 April.



1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.


1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.


1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

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